Over the last three weeks, I have had the opportunity to learn three valuable lessons from three great teachers at Ada bible church. Once again, these are not new things but timely reminders of how we as Christians should be developing our character as we seek a stronger more vibrant walk with God.
The first was on humility, the second on gratitude, and the third on generosity. All of these are key elements in growing your relationship with God and becoming more like Jesus. I encourage you to go to adabible.org and listen to all three messages, they were all great.
God provided a great opportunity last night as I watched a movie that seem to summarize and visualize what it means to see these three characteristics working in concert together. I watched the hallmark movie The Christmas Shoes (bring tissues if you watch it). It’s an amazing story of both a mans journey from selfish workaholic to self less humility, generosity, and gratitude, and a boys journey to give his mom one last special gift before she goes to meet Jesus.
As these two stories continually cross paths, you are taken through a journey that helps better understand how God is in control and everything happens for a reason. More importantly you see love, forgiveness, and transformation happen. It is one of the better depictions of what Christian character and these three characteristics I have seen in a long time.
Along with the sermons mentioned above, I recommend this movie as well. This is the type of thing we all need to do more of. Love and serve others and serve others in their times of need and trust that God will take care of us.
